OKDIA Hall of Fame

Since 2007, the 50th Birthday of the class, the OK Dinghy International Association (OKDIA) honours it's outstanding members with the OKDIA Hall Of Fame.
This might be outstanding sailors as well as outstanding contributors to the class.
The rules to include someone are as follows:

Nominations to the OKDIA Hall of Fame may be submitted to the OKDIA Committee by the Secretary of a National Association or a member of the OKDIA Committee. A short report justifying the nomination shall be submitted with the name. A Hall of Fame plaque will be presented to the successful nominee. The final decision on successful entry to the OKDIA Hall of Fame will lie with the current OKDIA Committee.

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Andre Blasse was inducted for his lifelong commitment to the OK class in Victoria and Australia.

Andre started sailing OK Dinghies at 15 years old. The 2014 orlds will be his 19th since then. He has been OKDIA president, Australian treasurer, and also important, he was instrumental in the resurgence of the class in Australia.

Bill Tyler was inducted at the 2008 World Championship in Warnemünde, Germany.

Bill has been involved with the OK Dinghy since the early 70's, he is also one of three directors of the Clive Roberts Trust Fund that was established in the 1970s to help with the development of Australian OK Juniors

Basil Crosby was awarded posthumous during the World Championship 2009 in Kalmar, Sweden for his work for the class.

Crosby's role in the establishment and ultimate success of the OK Dinghy as an international class cannot be overstated. He was one of the founders of OKDIA in 1962 and was also secretary of the British OK Dinghy Class Association at the same time.

The late Clive Roberts was inducted at the New Zealand class association's 50th Anniversary celebrations in October 2007.

He was one of the sailors that inducted the OK Dinghy into New Zealand in the mid 1960s. He won 10 New Zealand Nationals, five Interdoms and in 1973 became the first non-European to win the OK Dinghy World Championships.

Bo-Staffan Andersson was inducted during the World Championship 2009 in Kalmar, Sweden

He was inducted in recognition of being the most successful OK Dinghy sailor ever - he won four World Championship titles in the late 80s and early 90s, as well as one European title and three Swedish titles.